Export not working (5 posts)

I want to edit two lines in all my posts. I have a video blog site and I'm using a FLV player. I have editted my plugin settings to resize my flash player from now and make it bigger, but because the flash player size is posted everytime in the post I need to edit all posts.

So I thought of exporting all my posts, using the new Export function and then import it, but when I click on export and Download Export File, I get a blank XML file.

I wanted to know how to solve this and if this is indeed the best solution to resolve my problem.

Browser, browser version, and OS please. Also do you have your browser set up to launch another program when it comes to *.xml files?

I'm tempted to suggest exporting out the database myself and doing a search and replace on the file myself. Without knowing what exactly is being changed, it's kind of hard to make an exact suggestion though.

I have the same problem: the resulting xml file is empty. Tried it with Firefox 1.5 and IE6 on Linux.

Would appreciate any help. I just spent hours to manually update the db tables of my WP test install, just to produce that darn XML file.

I am moving my blog to wordpress.com, and I can't access the db directly, which leaves me with this option only.

Thanks,

Sonja

UPDATE: When I leave the "Restrict Authors" field empty, the basic data (blog name, etc.) are being written to the resulting XML file. However, if I choose All or a certain author, the XML file is empty (and I mean, empty... not a single line to see). This might be a timeout problem, maybe too many posts (I have around 380 in my blog).

Same problem here. I tried both Firefox and Camino on OS X. Medical's solution worked for me - I could export my "admin" user account, but not a second user account. But it is not a issue of having too many posts - this is a very small site on which I don't use the blog features, just "pages." Also, the second user doesn't work at all. I am going to go through and manually try changing all the users to be "admin" and try again...

In doing this I notice that the pages in the other user's name were created a long time ago, presumably imported or preserved from when my usernames were different. This user no longer exists, which may be what is causing the problem!

UPDATE: Still can't do "All" after changing ownership of all posts to "admin" however, at least when I do an "admin" export I'll be sure to have everything, and that still works. May be that the user tables are corrupted...